In this file photo from June, Jets running back Michael Goodson (right) is passed by Garant Evans as he leaves Superior Court in Morristown.

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Peggy Wright
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New York Jets running back Michael D. Goodson Jr. and a friend from Roselle were indicted Thursday on charges of unlawfully possessing a loaded .45-caliber Taurus handgun that was found in their vehicle in Denville in May.

A Morris County grand jury issued an indictment Thursday that charges Goodson, 26, of Spring, Texas, and Roselle resident Garant F. Evans, 32, with unlawful possession of a weapon on May 17 and unlawful possession of prohibited weapons and devices, a reference to a hollow-point bullet found in the gun.

Evans alone was charged with being a certain person not permitted to ...